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MARYBACON MARTIN, OF NEW" YORK, N. Y.

I ROCESS OF DECORATING PAPER AND OTHER MATERIALS WITH OIL-COLORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 324,860, dated August 25, 1885.

Application filed Ncvcmber 26, 1894. (Specimens) T0 to whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, DIARY Bacon MARTIN, of the city, county, and State of New York, have made an invention of certain new and useful Improvements in the Process of Decorating Materials with Oil-Colors, and of a new and useful manufactureuvhieh is produced by said process, and which I designate as molten metallic paper, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description and specification of the same.

The object of myprocess is to produce upon paper and other suitable materials a highlydecorative surface, which renders it useful for wall-decoration and other purposes. The said process and the articles of manufacture pro duced thereby are specified in the claims at the close of this specification.

In order that the said process and the nature of the products of the same may be fully understood, I will proceed to describe the best mode in which I have thus far practiced my process.

The colors employed by me are what are commonly known as oil-colors, consisting of pigments ground with oil; and the quality of oil-c0lors which I prefer to use are those known as artists colors. These are thinned with spirits of turpentine to the consistency of mixed paints for painting wood-work. In

order to apply these colors according to my process a trough of shecttin or other suitable material is used, of suitable size for the sheets of paper to be treated, a good size being about two inches wider than the sheet, about two inches longer than the same, and about two inches deep. This trough is nearly filled with water, and a minute quantity of spirits of turpentine is sprinkled in drops upon the water sufficient to produce a thin film upon the same. The thinned oil-color which is to be used is poured upon the turpentine in the trough and diffuses itself over the surface of the water. As many colors as are desired in the article to be produced may be applied to the turpentine in this manner, and dilierent colors may be applied in greater or less quantities at different parts of the turpentine-film to vary the effect, according tothe will of the operator. A sheet of heavy white paper is carefully laid upon the color in the trough, and it is expedient to apply the sheet to the oil-color, first at one end of the trough, and to lower it progressively until the whole sheet touches the color, which immediately adheres to it. The sheet is then lifted, preferably by lifting first the end which was first applied to the color. When the paper is lifted, it will generally be found that the entire surface of the paper is coated with the oil-color; but if there be spot-s uncovered, the paper should be applied again to the color in the trough. The colored paper may then be hung up to dry.

If the surface of the paper is to be both colored and bronzed, bronze-powder of any de sired color is sprinkled upon the surface of the oil-color diffused upon the water in the troughbefore the application of the paper thereto; or the bronze may be applied after the paper has been coated with the oil-color, in which case the bronze-powder is sprinkled upon the oil color in the trough after the paper has been coated with the color, and the paper, while still damp from the first coloring, is applied a second time to the color and is raised from the same. In either case it will be found that the bronze-powder has adhered to the colored paper; or, in place of sprinlc ling the bronze-powder upon the color in the trough, that powder may be mixed with the thinned oil-color before it is poured upon the film of turpentine in the trough.

If the paper is to be plain, it is permitted to dry as it comes last from the oil-color; but if the paper is to be figured then the paper, after it has been colored, or colored and bronzed, and while still damp, has stamps of the required design impressed upon its colored surface by hand or otherwise.

If the color in the trough is exhausted by f the dipping of one sheet into it, a fresh coat of the diffused oil-color must be formed upon the water before a second sheet is applied thereto, the application of the oitcolor being 5 preceded, as at iirst,-by the formation of a thin film of spirits of turpentine.

The colored and bronzed paper which is produced by the above diffusive oil-color process I designate molten metallic paper. It

is applicable to a great variety of decorative purposes, and it is distinguished by a peculiar (-loudcd colored surface of oil-color, produced, as above described, by applyingoilcolor ina diffused condition to the paper.

The paper which I have used with success for the above manufacture is Whatmans rough Crawi rig-paper; but the invention is applicable to other materials, such as the leather used for covering walls, which may be treated in the same manner as the paper, and the trough used is by preference made long enough to receive the entire sheet of material at one dip.

The invention also is applicable to the deco ration of pottery. Thus articles of biscuit or unglaz'ed ware, such as vessels, tiles, and bricks, may have their surfaces decorated by applying them to the coloring-matter diffused, as above described, in connection with a film of solvent, rounded articles being turned upon the film of color, so as to coat t-heirentire surfaces; and, if desired, bronze powder may be my process is distinguished from this by the use of oil-colors, and by the use of a solvent (spirits of turpentine) for the oil of the colors. By my process, also, bronze may be combined with the color. The effects of the two processes, also, are wholly distinct, that produced by my process being a clouded color, which 40 with oil-color by diffusing the oil-color, in 0011- v nection with a solvent upon water, and applying the paper or other material to the same, substantially as before set forth.

2. The process, substantially as before set forth, of coloring and bronzing oil-paper and other materials with oil-color and bronze by diffusing the oil-color, in connection with a solvent and bronze-powder, upon water, and applying the paper or other material to the same, substantially as before set forth.

3. As a new manufacture, the article hereinbefore described, consisting of an article whose surface is colored with oil-color by. the diffusion process, substantially as above de scribed.

4. As a new manufacture, the article hereinbefore described, consisting of an article whose surface is colored with oil'color by the diffusion process, and bronzed, substantially as above described.

In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand this 24th day of November, A. D. 1884.

MARY BACON MARTIN.

Witnesses:

J AMES S. ALLEN, FRED. INGRAHAM. 

